Traprock Ridge Land Conservancy & East Granby Public Library Present
Asian Bittersweet Tree
Tuesday, December 5th at 7 pm
Using invasive Asian Bittersweet vine that was cleared during the creation of Doreen's Nature Trail, make a natural, free-form tree to display in your home during the holidays or year-round.
Wednesday Afternoon at the Movies
Wednesday, December 6th at 1pm we will be showing "Christmas Waltz"
Rated TV-G, 1 hour 23 minutes.
Synopsis:
A woman dumped by her fiancé a month before her storybook Christmas wedding decides to take the series of ballroom lessons intended for her wedding dance.
Needle Felting Workshop: A Reindeer!
Join us on Thursday, December 7th, for a needle felting class with Angelina Fleury. Instruction and materials are included in the $15 class fee.
REGISTRATION IS NOT COMPLETE UNTIL PAYMENT IS RECEIVED.
Payment is required at least 7 days in advance via cash, check, or Venmo @Eastgranbypubliclibrary.
If payment is not received the spot will be released.
Please note: After 3 last-minute cancellations or no-shows - registration will be restricted. Thank you for understanding.
In-Person Book Club
The book club meets in person at the East Granby Public Library, conference room, the second Monday of the month at 10am.
Meeting, December 11th, 2023
God help the child by Toni Morrison
At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life, but which caused her light-skinned mother to deny her even the simplest forms of love. There is Booker, the man Bride loves, and loses to anger. Rain, the mysterious white child with whom she crosses paths. And finally, Bride’s mother herself, Sweetness, who takes a lifetime to come to understand that “what you do to children matters. And they might never forget.”
OPOSSUMS: BACKYARD WILDLIFE & WINTER SURVIVAL
Presented by Traprock Ridge Land Conservancy and EGPL
Join Ferncroft Wildlife Rescue and their live opossum ambassadors. Learn about opossums, their benefits, and how we can be friendly neighbors with North America's only native marsupial.
After the presentation, there will be a meet and greet where you can meet the live opossum and take pictures with them.
Wednesday Afternoon at the Movies
Wednesday, December 13th at 1pm we will be showing "Mistletoe & Menorahs"
Rated TV-G, 1 hour 25 minutes.
Synopsis: When a toy company executive must learn about Hanukkah to land a big account, she enlists the help of her co-worker's friend, who also happens to be in need of turning his pad into a Christmas Wonderland to impress his girlfriend's father.
OPOSSUMS: BACKYARD WILDLIFE & WINTER SURVIVAL
Presented by Traprock Ridge Land Conservancy and EGPL
Join Ferncroft Wildlife Rescue and their live opossum ambassadors. Learn about opossums, their benefits, and how we can be friendly neighbors with North America's only native marsupial.
After the presentation, there will be a meet and greet where you can meet the live opossum and take pictures with them.
Join us for a holiday centerpiece class with Kathy Mock!!!
Tuesday, December 19th at 6 pm
Cost: $15 includes all supplies and instruction
Wednesday Afternoon at the Movies
Wednesday, December 20th at 1pm we will be showing "The Man Who Invented Christmas"
Rated PG, 1 hour44 minutes.
Synopsis: The Man Who Invented Christmas tells the magical journey that led to the creation of Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim and other classic characters from A Christmas Carol.The Man Who Invented Christmas tells the magical journey that led to the creation of Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim and other classic characters from A Christmas Carol.The Man Who Invented Christmas tells the magical journey that led to the creation of Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim and other classic characters from A Christmas Car
The virtual book club meets via Zoom the last Tuesday of the month at 4pm.
Meeting, December 26th.
Title: Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie
In Hercule Poirot’s Christmas, the holidays are anything but merry when a family reunion is marred by murder—and the notoriously fastidious investigator is quickly on the case.
Christmas Eve, and the Lee family’s reunion is shattered by a deafening crash of furniture and a high-pitched wailing scream. Upstairs, the tyrannical Simeon Lee lies dead in a pool of blood, his throat slashed.
When Hercule Poirot offers to assist, he finds an atmosphere not of mourning but of mutual suspicion. It seems everyone had their own reason to hate the old man. . . .
Wednesday Afternoon at the Movies
Wednesday, December 27th at 1pm we will be showing "Winter Love Story"
Rated G, 1 hour 24 minutes.
Synopsis: When author Cassie's first novel isn't selling, she is paired on a book tour with author Elliot to boost Cassie's sales - but along the way a romance starts to blossom.
Needle Felting Workshop: A Penguin
Join us for a needle felting class with Angelina Fleury. Instruction and materials are included in the
$15 class fee.
REGISTRATION IS NOT COMPLETE UNTIL PAYMENT IS RECEIVED.
Payment is required at least 7 days in advance via cash, check, or Venmo @Eastgranbypubliclibrary.
If payment is not received the spot will be released.
Please note: After 3 last-minute cancellations or no-shows - registration will be restricted. Thank you for understanding.
CT Reads 2024 Virtual Author Launch with Kelly Yang, Nick Brooks, and Daniel Black
Friday, January 19th, 2024
11:00am - 12:30pm
Join All CT Reads for an extra-special virtual launch with the authors of the 2024 All CT Reads primary selections:
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Kelly Yang author of Finally Seen, our kids pick
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Nick Brooks author of Promise Boys, our teen pick
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Daniel Black author of Don't Cry for Me, adult pick
Each author will discuss their work and answer questions from our community.
Registration is thru the CT State Library at: https://cslib.libcal.com/event/11497161
Recordings will also be available on the All CT Reads website: https://sites.google.com/view/allctreads/home
Please contact Gail Hurley (CT State Library) at gail.hurley@ct.gov or (860) 704-2223 with registration questions.
Webinar: Motivating Your Unmotivated Student
Wednesday, January 24, 7:00 pm
For parents of middle and high school students
A zoom link will be emailed to you once you register.
In a 30-minute highly dynamic, action-specific, and interactive webinar, parents are invited to learn a few tips, tools, and strategies to motivate, inspire, and support their students.
What you will learn:
- Why is your student unmotivated
- How self-esteem and anxiety impact motivation
- The importance of goals and objectives, choices and consequences
- What problem-solving skills benefit an unmotivated student
- The effects of power struggles
- How do you inspire your kids to motivate themselves
By registering for this event, you are allowing to share your registration info with Successful Study Skills 4 Students.
Register Now: https://s4studyskills.secure.force.com/enroll/EastGranbyLib
Need more info?
203-307-5455 | S4StudySkills.com | info@S4StudySkills.com
The virtual book club meets via Zoom the last Tuesday of the month at 4pm.
Meeting, January 30th.
Title: Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
“That was it. That was all of it. A grace so ordinary there was no reason at all to remember it. Yet I have never across the forty years since it was spoken forgotten a single word.”
New Bremen, Minnesota, 1961. The Twins were playing their debut season, ice-cold root beers were selling out at the soda counter of Halderson’s Drugstore, and Hot Stuff comic books were a mainstay on every barbershop magazine rack. It was a time of innocence and hope for a country with a new, young president. But for thirteen-year-old Frank Drum it was a grim summer in which death visited frequently and assumed many forms. Accident. Nature. Suicide. Murder.
Frank begins the season preoccupied with the concerns of any teenage boy, but when tragedy unexpectedly strikes his family—which includes his Methodist minister father; his passionate, artistic mother; Juilliard-bound older sister; and wise-beyond-his-years kid brother—he finds himself thrust into an adult world full of secrets, lies, adultery, and betrayal, suddenly called upon to demonstrate a maturity and gumption beyond his years.
Told from Frank’s perspective forty years after that fateful summer, Ordinary Grace is a brilliantly moving account of a boy standing at the door of his young manhood, trying to understand a world that seems to be falling apart around him. It is an unforgettable novel about discovering the terrible price of wisdom and the enduring grace of God.
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